This is the main page for the spring 2007 version of J. B. Owens's upper-division undergraduate and graduate course, History 453/553, Renaissance Creativity. The sole purpose of this page and all of the pages linked to it is to provide an orientation for those students enrolled in History 453/553.

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Renaissance Creativity: HIST 453/553

This page is prepared and maintained by J. B. Owens.

• Syllabus

• Class Sessions and Reading Assignments

• List of the 18 segments of the series The Renaissance: The Origins of the Modern West, which will be viewed and discussed

• Viewpoint Page: This page states a hypothesis around which class discussions and writing assignments will be organized.

• Student Project: Here you will find a discussion of the student project, which involves the creation of a digital data set describing book production, distribution, and reading.

• List of authors for the student project

• Course Style Sheet, to be followed in the preparation of the project paper and all other relevant written work

• Brief discussion of plagiarism and how to avoid it, adapted with permission from Jennifer Attebery of Idaho State University, Department of English

• Suggestions for writing effective examination essays

• Scholarly journals

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Revised: 6 January 2007

URL:  http://www.isu.edu/~owenjack/rencr/rencr.html